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The U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center (US GHG Center) is a multi-agency effort consolidating greenhouse gas information from observations and models. The US GHG Center helps researchers, climate change mitigation practitioners, policymakers, data service providers, and concerned citizens understand
GHG datasets and put them to use.
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Welcome to our October Newsletter!
In this edition, you can read about new urban content on the US GHG Center portal, upcoming engagement opportunities, new datasets, and more.
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Portal Updates
On September 19, 2024 the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center (beta) released several major updates to the portal.
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Featured Content: Urban Emissions. Cities and metropolitan regions are responsible for approximately 70% of greenhouse gas emissions. The US GHG Center offers an introduction to new urban-relevant datasets and highlights innovative emissions research in cities across the country.
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New Datasets. Highlighted in urban emissions content and now available to access and explore, new datasets include: Vulcan Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions (annual, 1km resolution, CONUS); NOAA’s GRA2PES Greenhouse Gas and Air Quality Species (monthly, 0.036 degree resolution, CONUS); and NIST’s Urban GHG Measurements Testbed System featuring ground-based measurements of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane gases collected in three regional testbeds across the U.S.
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Changes to Portal Navigation. Explore new navigation options from the portal’s homepage, where you will find direct links to stories (guided, interactive narratives), topics (thematic content collections), and the data toolkit (launchpad for working with data).
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New Training on Methane Observations: November 19-21, 2024
Registration for the “Methane Observations for Large Emission Event Detection and Monitoring” training is now available on ARSET, NASA’s remote sensing training platform. This two-part training course will begin with an introduction to the US GHG Center and provide participants with an overview of how methane observations from the Earth surface Mineral dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission can be used to identify and monitor areas of high methane enhancement. This course will also demonstrate how to navigate the US GHG Center portal to access data products as well as highlight tools for visualizing methane observations.
Register for the training course
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EPA RFI on Methane Emission Technology
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting public comment on the potential for expanded use of advanced and emerging technologies for methane emissions quantification in the Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. EPA intends to use the feedback received in response to the request for information (RFI) to consider whether it is appropriate to undertake further rulemaking addressing the use of advanced measurement technologies for petroleum and natural gas systems and MSW landfills beyond the role provided for these technologies in existing rules. Responses to the RFI are due by November 27, 2024.
View the RFI
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Second Annual Stakeholder Forum: December 4-5, 2024
The US GHG Center will host a Stakeholder Forum on December 4-5, 2024 in the DC area (College Park, MD). The forum precedes the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in Washington, DC held December 9-13. During the forum, we’ll see the progress made during the beta phase of the Center and engage in strategic discussions to guide our future direction for 2025 and beyond.
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AGU Pre-conference Workshop: December 8, 2024
The US GHG Center will host a workshop at the 2024 AGU annual conference. Join us at Advancing Open Science: Greenhouse Gas Emission Data Analysis using the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center’s JupyterHub (PREWS17), 1 - 4:30PM EST. This half-day workshop provides hands-on practice in using cloud-optimized datasets in the portal, open-source tools, and computing resources for exploring, visualizing, and analyzing science data. Early bird registration ends on November 6.
View workshop details
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AGU Oral Session:
December 10, 2024
The US GHG Center will host a session at the 2024 AGU conference, titled Providing Accessible and Credible Greenhouse Gas Information from the US Government and Partners to Meet User Needs (SY21A), 8:30 - 10AM EST. During this session, we will demonstrate how the US GHG Center is playing a pivotal role in implementing the “National Strategy to Advance an Integrated US Greenhouse Gas Measurement, Monitoring, and Information System” (GHGMMIS) and discuss forthcoming refinements and co-development initiatives between the U.S. Government and its stakeholders for 2025 and beyond.
View session details
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U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center
https://earth.gov/ghgcenter
Contact:
hq-usghgcenter@mail.nasa.gov
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Program Manager
Argyro Kavvada
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Stakeholder Engagement
Lead
Shanna Combley
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